A fifth-grade teacher first writes the following sentences on the board to guide the class through an activity.
Look at the word play in these two sentences:
*Let’s play a game.
* Please play the new CD for me.
Look at the word fly in these two sentences:
*We like to fly kites.
*A fly is on the window.
This activity would best promote students’ ability to _______.
(A) identify and decode common homographs
(B) use structural cues to identify the meaning of words
(C) cluster new vocabularies together into meaningful groups
(D) find and use synonyms for common words